 | Confessions of a Turtle Wife by Anita Salzberg
Buy used from: $17.68 A great gift to give to your signficant other when you got that extra herp you promised you wouldn't buy. Doesn't hurt that its funny and well-written, and about me.
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 | Turtles (First Books - Animals) by Anita Baskin-Salzberg
Buy used from: $1.17 We wrote this because every other turtle book for kids we've seen are full of errors. Its a simple as that.
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 | Herpetology, Second Edition: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles by George R. Zug
Buy used from: $35.00 If you really want to get into all herps, this is the place to start. Period.
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 | My Family and Other Animals (Classic, Nature, Penguin) by Gerald Durrell
Buy used from: $0.19 An Animal lover and conservationist with a sense of humour. Very Rare.
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 | The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction by David Quammen
Buy new: $15.84 / Used from: $5.63 He is almost definitely the best nature writer living. And this is his best book. How is this related to turtles? Its all about extinctiion. Nuff said.
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 | Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.87 One of the funniest scifi/fantasy books around and it doesn't hurt that one of its main chracters is a god who is also a tortoise. Greek I believe.
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 | The Windward Road: Adventures of a Naturalist on Remote Caribbean Shores by ARCHIE F. CARR
Buy new: $14.49 / Used from: $9.72 A herpetologist who knew how to write for the layman and the scientific journals and was the mentor for a whole generation of today's working herpetologists. A very rare and unique man.
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 | Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.99 He travels all over in order to see the rarest animals (herps included) before they dissapear. And its none of them are easy trips. But he did bring his sense of absurdity of the situation with him.
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 | Turtles, Tortoises and Terrapins: Survivors in Armor by Ronald Orenstein
Buy used from: $9.99 A wonderful up-to-date overview of turtles.
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 | North American Box Turtles: A Natural History (Animal Natural History Series, V. 6) by C. Kenneth Dodd
Buy used from: $65.00 The best book on the most popular well-loved turtle in the US
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 | Green Iguana: The Ultimate Owner's Manual by James W., III Hatfield
Buy used from: $3.68 Iguanas are still one of the most popular pets in the US, and one of the most fascinating. Hatfield seems to know everything about them. And he's written it down in his book.
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 | Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature (A Director's Circle Book of the Associates of the University of California Press) by Harry W. Greene
Buy new: $48.00 / Used from: $4.64 Considered by many the best, contemporary, overall look at snakes. Got nice pictures.
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 | Lizard Ecology by Laurie J. Vitt
Buy used from: $79.06 Still a standard
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 | Biology of Amphibians by William E. Duellman
Buy new: $45.73 / Used from: $16.82 For good reason, there are certain books that people refer to over and over again. This is one.
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 | Snakes: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology by Richard A. Seigel
Buy new: $69.95 / Used from: $62.76 Was just reissued. Why? Its a Classic and deserves it.
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 | Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity (Organisms and Environments, 5) by Eric R. Pianka
Buy new: $45.00 / Used from: $8.68 The latest books on Lizard ecology, evolution, habits, etc.
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 | Iguanas: Biology and Conservation
Buy new: $65.00 / Used from: $11.88 A great follow-up to Burghardt & Rand's Book "Iguanas of the Wordl"
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 | VENOMOUS REPTILES PB by Ernst Ch
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $7.95 Most recent, Standard text.
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 | Turtles of the United States and Canada by Carl H. Ernst
Buy used from: $50.00 Though some turtles like those in clemmys have been since reclassfied and other updates have occurred its still the best in the field.
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 | Snakes of the United States and Canada by Carl H. Ernst
Buy new: $56.00 / Used from: $55.00 No other book is as complete and up-to-date
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 | Turtles of the World by Roger W. Barbour
Buy new: $31.45 / Used from: $5.50 A lot has happened since this book came out. and though its time for a new book, This is still a must have for any herpetologist
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 | The Biology of Sea Turtles, Volume II
Buy new: $86.11 / Used from: $85.84 Good basic information on sea turtles. The place to begin if you are serious.
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 | Measuring and Monitoring Biological Diversity. Standard Methods for Amphibians (Biological Diversity Handbook)
Buy new: $24.25 / Used from: $18.05 Read it before you go out in the field to study amphibians.
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 | The Calls of Frogs and Toads by Lang Elliott
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $0.24 Like birds you can recognize a frog by its call. The only complete CD of N. American frogs and toad calls I know of.
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 | Self-Portrait with Turtles: A Memoir (.) by David M. Carroll
Buy used from: $0.01 I call him turtles best public defender. With his drawings, prose, and musings on his attraction to turtles, this and his other books explain why turtles deserve our attention and admiration.
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 | Frogs: Inside Their Remarkable World by Ellin Beltz
Buy new: $26.56 / Used from: $18.22 Booklist said it best "Frogs are cool." They are also wierd. What is great about Herpetologist Beltz's books is that she fully knows both, but leans a bit on wierd side. You'll learn everything you want to know about frogs, biology to mythology, but you will also see photos never before shown anywhere of frogs doing, well, not exactly froggy things.
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